From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 14 21:43:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA22112 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 21:43:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from goof.com (goof.com [128.173.247.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA22105 for ; Sun, 14 Dec 1997 21:43:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jtroy@goof.com) From: jtroy@goof.com Received: (qmail 600 invoked by uid 15009); 15 Dec 1997 05:43:33 -0000 Message-ID: <19971215054333.599.qmail@goof.com> Subject: KDE port problems To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 00:43:33 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anyone installed the KDE port from the -current ports collection? I just did the other day and am having some problems getting it to work. I am running 2.2.2 RELEASE and installed all of the portions of the KDE using the ports (not the packages). I was a little confused about what I had to do to acutually run the window manager so, this is what I ended up doing: I found /usr/local/bin/kdm. I assumed this was some sort of display manager (analagous to xdm) so I shut down XDM and started KDM. When I start KDM I see the Accelerated X's giant X appear on my screen as I normall do when my X server is started. However, nothing happens after that....I don't get any sort of log in screen. The X just stays on the screen and I have to kill the server manually to get rid of it. Now, I don't know if I am even following the right procedure to use KDE by starting kdm, and I also don't know if there is anything else I need to do to get it to work, but I would appreciate any help/advice from anyone who has played with this port. Thanks to you in advance, -Jesse Troy jtroy@vt.edu http://www.helium.goof.com/~jtroy